Shuttle flight features microgravity science, Station demos

NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery is set to lift off Nov. 19 for a long- duration mission to conduct microgravity science, study the solar wind and demonstrate International Space Station technology in a spacewalk that was thwarted by a balky hatch last year. Bill Reeves, lead flight director for the...

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